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Here are 12 superfoods that will not only make you healthier but that you also have a fighting chance of finding at your neighbourhood grocery store.

Last year every food pundit and hack journalist in North America told you to run out and eat acai and goji berries and Jerusalem artichokes. Trouble is that most grocery stores don't carry any of those things.

A year later you are no healthier and really no closer to everlasting life.

I have a different approach. I believe that many of the foods you should be incorporating into your diet are relatively easy to find.

A few of the foods on this list may be unfamiliar, but that doesn't mean they are difficult to find or hard to work with. In many cases a quick Google search will turn up dozens of recipes.

Most of the items are plants and seeds, and if they replace a little of the meat and cheese in your diet, you'll be better for it.

Food seeds are usually high in fibre, omega-3 fatty acids and alpha linolenic acid. Sheila Innis, director of nutrition and metabolism at UBC's Child and Family Research Institute, still likes good old ground flax seed as an inexpensive, high-nutrient option.

Here are 12 superfoods that will not only make you healthier but that you also have a fighting chance of finding at your neighbourhood grocery store.